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FILE NAME Allied Signal Bendix ASB DATE 1967 May 8 DOC ASB109 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article in Bendix Today - Polich Sees Room at Top for Foundries The Bendix Corporation ' Vol , No. 8 Page 8 May 8 1967 | PLAINTIFF'S 80-63198 EXHIBIT 869 PENGAD | tates Rete Polich Richard Polich general manager of Foundries division Teterboro N.J. has a goal and that is to see his division become the top foundry in the country This uncomplicated yet lofty ambition is typical of Polich who at 34 is the youngest general manager in the cor- poration He figures if you're going to do something you might as well not only do it right - but best And if you're going to bet it might be best not to bet against him Because Polich who took the heim at Foundries last No- vember has a rather unbeatable quartet of qualities going for him that is knowl edge enthusiasm dedication and daring And whatever Polich has Foundries is getting Long Road The road that brought Rich- ard Polich to Foundries divi- sion was far from a straight one The young general manager Sees Room Room attended Yale from 1951 to 1954 lettering in football wrestling and lacrosse getting above average grades and obtaining a bachelor's degree in economics Upon graduation he went to work as a sales engineer for the Engineered Castings division of Abex Corporation in Rochester N.Y. From 1956-1959 Polich was a pilot in the U.S. Naval Re- serves Back to School at Top for Foundries with Polich's performance and capacity for hard work -enough to make him gen- eral manager when Werner Lob left to take a similar position at Environmental ScienceScienceScience division Towson The first thing that impresses one when talking to Polich is that he is out of fashion refusing to wear that blase facade considered by many to be a chic substitute for a sense of dignity and self esteem into the field of titanium castings He gets excited when discuss- ing the problem of abstracting from empirical observa- tion in the manufacture of castings when explaining the difficult task of making castings consistent when stressing the skill and inge nuity necessary to produce some of the division's more complex castings which contain a maze of twisting passages Then in 1961 he hit the books again while also work- Richard Polich gets excited But Richard Polich becomes most excited most unihibit- ing full time at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate He graduated in 1964 with a master's degree in metal- lurgy a single B having slightly marred an otherwise all- academic record Polich then joined Hitchiner Manufacturing Company of Milford N.H. where he became chief metallurgist In April 1966 the winding road to success brought him to Foundries division as di- RICHARD POLICH His ++ Hopes Are High rector of metallurgy and quality control His first reaction I'd been in foundries that were like caves where you almost literally couldn't see anything This was relatively clean I was impressed Meanwhile top management was obviously impressed Not erratic waving excited but intensely so about castings He gets excited when tracing their history back to the early Greek sculptures when painting a verbal picture of the high drama inherent in the pouring of white molten steel when describing the expansion his divi- sion is making in the produc- tion of aluminum castings in its embarking on a new pro- duct line of steel castings and in its possible entrance edly enthused when he looks to the future and sees what it might hold for Foundries division We want to become the best foundry in the country he says To accomplish that feat Polich says he's trying to build a team combining those people with craft and skill and those with technical know menset In other words menset manis the mind and the hand May 8 1967